GOP's Schiavo memo was real. The rightwing blogosphere worked tirelessly to smear as a hoax the GOP's memo on the conservative windfall the Schiavo case represented. Turns out, it's the real deal. Shocking, I know. AMERICAblog has a nice rundown of foot-in-mouth comments by rightwingers prior to this revelation: bowtied blabberer Tucker Carlson called it "a forgery, possibly written by Democrats on the hill in an effort to discredit Republicans"; GOP Sen. Bennett of Utah called it "an invention of the press"; the annoying conservative blog Powerline pontificated, "there is no reason whatsoever to believe that the memo originated with the Republicans, and considerable reason to think it may be a Democratic dirty trick..."

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